Indian Blogosphere is used to describe the online predominantly community of India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n weblogs that is part of the larger blogosphere.

History

With the advent of unicode

Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...

 when typing in Indian languages on computer became possible, blogs in Indian languages started to be written. Hindi

Hindi

Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...

  blogging was started by Alok Kumar.

Initially due to non-availability of Indic

Indic

Indic can refer to:* Indo-Aryan languages* Indic scripts* Related to the Indian Subcontinent* of or related to India ; see Indica...

 typing tools or due to non-awareness of such tools Indian blogosphere was small. Later on, due to spread of awareness in this regard and due to development and availability of Indic typing tools, number of Indian blogs started growing rapidly.

Indic language typing tools

Although the standard keyboard of Indian languages is InScript

InScript

InScript is a software library providing an ECMAScript engine for ECMA-262 3ed, written in C++, and some Java classes for LiveConnect. It was used by the web browser iCab 2 and 3. ICab 4 uses the WebKit Web browser engine with the ECMAScript engine JavaScriptCore. It is proprietary software,...

 yet Phonetic transliteration based typing became most popular for unicode

Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...

 Indic typing in spite of its drawbacks. The two most popular phonetic typing tools of old times are Indic IME and BarahaIME. In 2007, with the advent of Google Indic Transliteration

Google Indic Transliteration

Google transliteration is a transliteration typing service for Indian languages.This tool first appeared in Blogger, Google's popular blogging service. Later on it came into existence as a separate online tool. Keeping in view its popularity it was embedded in GMail and Orkut...

 tool in its blogging service Blogger

Blogger (service)

Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com. Up until May 1, 2010 Blogger allowed users to publish...

, it became the tool of choice for new bloggers because it is based on dictionary and does not need a learning curve.

Blog platform

Although Indian blogs are being written on various platforms yet Google's Blogger

Blogger (service)

Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com. Up until May 1, 2010 Blogger allowed users to publish...

 is most popular among Indian bloggers. It is due to the fact that it supports Indic Unicode

Indic Unicode

Indic Unicode refers to the sections of Unicode related to Indic scripts. As of Unicode version 6.0 the following Indic Scripts have been encoded:*Balinese *Batak *Baybayin...

 and has rich features. In 2007, Indic language typing tool Google Indic Transliteration

Google Indic Transliteration

Google transliteration is a transliteration typing service for Indian languages.This tool first appeared in Blogger, Google's popular blogging service. Later on it came into existence as a separate online tool. Keeping in view its popularity it was embedded in GMail and Orkut...

 was also integrated in it, no need of separate Indic typing tool was left.

In addition to this, WordPress

WordPress

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. It is often customized into a content management system . It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 14.7% of Alexa Internet's "top 1...

 being supporting Indic Unicode

Indic Unicode

Indic Unicode refers to the sections of Unicode related to Indic scripts. As of Unicode version 6.0 the following Indic Scripts have been encoded:*Balinese *Batak *Baybayin...

, is most popular among those who host their blog on their own domain.

See also

• :Category:Indian bloggers
• Blogosphere
  Blogosphere
  The blogosphere is made up of all blogs and their interconnections. The term implies that blogs exist together as a connected community or as a social network in which everyday authors can publish their opinions...
  
  
• Hindi Blogosphere
  Hindi Blogosphere
  Hindi Blogosphere is a term used to describe the online community of Hindi weblogs that are a part of the larger Indian Blogosphere.-History:...
  
  
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